The Churches' Emergency Committee on Southern Africa (CECSA) called on U.S. banks with loans to South Africa not to renew the loans or to approve new ones. CECSA held its first meeting at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility on February 10, 1986. The co-chairs and co-conveners of CSCSA were Rev. Avery Post, president of the United...
The Churches' Emergency Committee on Southern Africa (CECSA) called on U.S. banks with loans to South Africa not to renew the loans or to approve new ones. CECSA held its first meeting at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility on February 10, 1986. The co-chairs and co-conveners of CSCSA were Rev. Avery Post, president of the United Church of Christ, and the Rev. M. Lorenzo Shepard, president of the Progressive National Baptist Convention. (Source: TESTIMONY OF DR. JEAN SINDAB, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WASHINGTON OFFICE ON AFRICA BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS, U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington Office on Africa, April 9, 1986, available on this website;
Browning Joins Call To End South Africa Loans, Episcopal News Service, February 20, 1986: and
South Africa Loan Scrutiny Continues, Episcopal News Service, March 27, 1986, both accessed January 16, 2012.)